Build your first Agentic AI app step-by-step with Strands Agents & MCP

In this episode of AWS Show & Tell, Anil Nadminti hosts Adam, Prakash, Amanda, Aaron, and Myra to discuss and demonstrate building generative AI applications using StrandsAgents and MCP. The speakers introduce StrandsAgents as an open-source SDK designed to provide developers with choices for building and deploying agents at scale. They highlight its flexibility, customization options, and integration capabilities with various models, tools, and AWS services. The discussion covers the architecture of a personal assistant application that uses multi-agent collaboration, including a calendar assistant, an MCP-connected search assistant, and a code assistant. The team also discusses the differences between Bedrock Agents and StrandsAgents, emphasizing StrandsAgents' open-source nature and deployment flexibility. They showcase how to create custom tools, integrate with MCP servers, and leverage built-in tools for coding and AWS service integration, as well as the ease of building agents with the framework.